Recent News

East Central University’s Oklahoma Business Week, a unique summer program which enables high school students to take a plunge into a hands-on, real-world type of experience in the business world, was recently recognized with a 2015 Great Inspirations Award at the Creativity World Forum, held recently in Oklahoma City.

Fraud protection will the topic as Elaine Dodd will deliver the East Central University Parker Ethic Lecture Thursday, April 23, at 2 p.m. in Foundation Hall of the Chickasaw Business and Conference Center.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Frauds related to such things as identity theft, social media protection, internet scams and phone scams will be addresses by Dodd, who is vice president for the Fraud Division of the Oklahoma Bankers Association and has been recognized in Oklahoma and nationally for her efforts in fraud prevention.

East Central University swept all three team awards in the Small Business Division and two ECU individuals – Miranda McNabb and Miles Mitchell – were honored as well during the 2015 Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup Thursday, April 16, at the Chevy Events Center at Bricktown in Oklahoma City.

Team SuiteSeat, led by Mitchell, captured first place. Team Gourmet Grub, led by Stanford Mahlatini, took second and Team Back-Spin, led by McNabb with team member Matthew Butler, placed third.

A new era will be ushered into the learning environment at East Central University with the grand opening of the Dr. Raniyah Ramadan Center for Undergraduate Research and Learning at 1:30 p.m. Friday, April 24.

Event parking is located at the intersection of South Stadium Drive and East 10th Streets.

The East Central University Theatre Department will present “Woyzeck” at 7:30 p.m., April 16-18, at the Chalmers Herman Theatre in the Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center.

“Woyzeck,” is written by George Buchner around 1833 and translated and adapted by Nicolas Rudall in the version being performed at ECU. It is a story about an army barber, Woyzeck, and his common-law wife, Marie. Woyzeck has been augmenting his army income by signing up for scientific experiments with a local doctor and has been placed on a diet of peas.

East Central University’s Harland C. Stonecipher School of Business will conduct its 2015 Scholarship and Awards Banquet from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 21, in the ECU Foundation Hall of the Chickasaw Business and Conference Center. Cost for the banquet, which includes a meal and attendance at the awards ceremony, is $15 per person. The reservation deadline is Wednesday, April 15. For more information or to make reservations contact Julie Bradam at 580-559-5274 or Catie Caton at 580-559-5611.

Terri Talley, a survivor of the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, will speak at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 15, at East Central University’s Estep Multimedia Center inside the Bill S. Cole University Center.

Talley’s speech is part of the 20th anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing in which ECU’s Office of Campus Involvement, along with the other Regional University System of Oklahoma (RUSO) institutions of higher education are actively participating in activities of service, honor and kindness.

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